neurotoxicity can be a thing (excitatory neurotoxicity too! is also dose dependent.), but that regards research of the substance and so on. these are measurable

neurotoxicity can be a thing (excitatory neurotoxicity too! is also dose dependent.), but that regards research of the substance and so on. these are measurable things. with drug use, harm reduction in the modern era is essential. pushing it away from the legal sphere means that people will not manage to reduce their harm as much. all of this authoritarian shit doesn't stop people from doing things, it just stops them from doing it safely and getting help without being arrested. diet sodas have aspartame which contains phenylalanine which can increase dopamine levels in the brain. in this argument, tea, alcohol, diet soda, everything like that gets illegalized. there's nothing wrong with intoxication, just being irresponsible with it and not reducing the harm you cause or suffer yourself through intoxication. furthermore, amphetamine does the opposite of "lost productivity". so we should make that OTC by this merit? :p everything meaningful is going to contain chemicals including those of a psychoactive nature or a nature that changes biochemistry, nothing will stop being chemicals.